The Death of Grass, Paperback - John Christopher

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Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves o...

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Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, h...

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Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Tamara CheremnovaNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 30Cover...

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John Owen's exploration into the Scriptural perspective on the doctrine of universal redemption is yet to be answered or paralleled. Presented here...

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John Christopher, an acknowledged expert on Brunel, takes us on a tour of Cornwall, exploring his works in the county. This is the latest in a seri...

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Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized accou...

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